On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> Wednesday, March 07, 2001, 9:47:54 AM, Alex Kells wrote:
>
> > Hmm, 16million is only about twice the population of London... so it's not a
> > huge amount of people really <shrug>
>
> In the very very brief time since they opened, to have already
> achieved that is a huge accomplishment, not to mention that it is also
> the first alt.root type thing to ever exceed 1% visibility, and they
> did it in a big way, already at ~4-5% based on the approx. 300 million
> internet users the last report I saw estimated.
So what? So anybody who throws enough money at it should be able to start
their own new TLDs? Give me a break. This organization should, and
hopefully will, die, and leave alot of very shortsited, hype-happy
investors holding the very greasy bag.
> As someone on NANOG said, if they get Hotmail or Yahoo to support
> them....then everyone else will pretty much have to follow.
Not really...get ICANN to support it, and only *then* will anyone pretty
much have to follow. Until then, nobody in their right mind is going to
support it; there's simply no motivation.
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am
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